Rumney

The final picture shows a brand new council estate; by the look of the gardens, no one has yet moved in. The only vehicle in the scene is a utility van, either gas or electricity. The striking feature is that despite the size of the estate, there are plenty of open spaces.
An extract from from"Cardiff Photographic Memories".

Many estates of what we now call social housing sprang up around Britain following the war. The long rows of new council houses can be seen on the right of this picture, while the older, more substantial houses appear on the left. Much of the local authority housing was pretty cheerless in design, but it satisfied a great demand in the decades following the Second World War, due both to war damage and slum clearance in nearby Cardiff.
An extract from from"Wales Living Memories".

The photographer has certainly attracted a sizeable group of curious onlookers in this scene dominated by James Howell’s store (right). The draper’s original Cardiff premises opened in the Hayes in 1865 employing a mere five assistants. Relocating to St Mary Street in 1867 and the shrewd acquisition of adjoining premises allowed the frontage that we see here, constructed in 1879. Only a year prior to our photograph the store expanded ‘inwardly’ to Trinity Street. The farmer’s son from Pembrokeshire was on course to create Wales’ premier department store.
An extract from from"Cardiff Old and New Photographic Memories".

Admired by a lady sitting in the area later to be occupied by the National Museum stands the City Hall, a year after the bestowal of Cardiff’s city status. The move to locate the then Town Hall out of the ‘old town’ was considered bold and proved contentious. Objectors to the audacious scheme suggested alternative sites in the Arms Park and Temperance Town.
An extract from from"Cardiff Old and New Photographic Memories".

Today’s motorists can but marvel at the wide expanse of road on offer here. The formal layout of roads around the Civic Centre was initiated in 1903 some five years after completion of the purchase of Bute’s parkland. Original plans for one grand avenue leading from Queen Street to City Hall proved fruitless - a development partially hindered by the Bute retention of the adjacent Greyfriars site.
An extract from from"Cardiff Old and New Photographic Memories".